Coca-Cola

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• Business: Food and Related Products: Beverages: Soft Drinks: Coca-Cola  (11)
• Computers: Internet: Domain Names: Disputed Domain Names: vintagecocacola.com  (2)
• Society: Activism: Media: Culture Jamming: Pepsi Shirt on Coke Day  (12)
• Society: Issues: Business: Corporate Crime  (18)

Coke Watch - - Coca Cola has a responsibility to ensure that the conditions under which their products are produced are safe, it claims.

Corporate Screw Job: Coca-Cola vs. Bob Kolody - - Brief description of the case.

Drink of the Death Squads - - Lyrics and MP3 downloads of song about Coca-Cola and the AUC in Columbia, by David Rovics.

India Resource Center: Coke Campaign - - Campaign site for community struggles against Coca-Cola in India.

NOW with Bill Moyers - Response from Coca-Cola India - - Claims that the groundwater water shortage is due to lack of normal rainfall.

Pediatric Dentists Accused of Selling Out to Coke - - "...The grant will make the AAPD a captive of Coca-Cola, making it extremely unlikely that the AAPD will take positions antagonistic to the company....

Skolnick's Report: Coca-Cola, the CIA, and the Courts - - Seven part series about the close links between Coca-Cola, covert operations of the CIA and the Echelon spy machine, and the mafia.

Critics Attack Coke's BBC Chart Deal - - "...Coca-Cola is certain to face accusations of hypocrisy after recent declarations that it would stop advertising to the under-12s." [Guardian] (December 1, 2003)

Coke Pays Off Whistleblower - - Coca-Cola knowingly sold contaminated drinks to its customers and had rigged a marketing test in order to increase sales were some of the allegations. [BBC] (October 8, 2003)

Accused of Leaving Farms Parched and Land Poisoned - - Coca-Cola in India faces criticism for various environmental damages. [Guardian] (July 25, 2003)

Coca-Cola Boycott Launched after Killings at Colombian Plants - - Trade unions around the world are alleging that the company's locally owned bottlers in Colombia used illegal paramilitary groups to intimidate, threaten and kill its workers. [Guardian] (July 24, 2003)

Coke Deal Could Make Schools Target of Suits - - Seattle School Board warned that it might become the target of an anti-obesity lawsuit for allowing schools to peddle soda to students. [Seattle Post-Intelligencer Reporter] (July 2, 2003)

Coke, Pepsi Feel the Heat in Kerala - - Companies are charged with depleting water level ('exploitation of water resources') in Kerala villages. [Rediff] (May 23, 2003)

Coke Paints the Himalayas Red - - "India's Supreme Court has asked Coca-Cola and Pepsi to explain why their logos are painted on the Himalaya mountains." [BBC] (August 15, 2002)

Coke Sued Over Death Squad Claims - - The world's largest soft drink maker is being sued over allegations that it employed right-wing death squads in Colombia. [BBC] (July 30, 2001)